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surmount
[ ser-mount ]
verb (used with object)
- to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over:
to surmount a hill.
- to get over or across (barriers, obstacles, etc.).
- to prevail over:
to surmount tremendous difficulties.
- to be on top of or above:
a statue surmounting a pillar.
- to furnish with something placed on top or above:
to surmount a tower with a spire.
- Obsolete.
- to surpass in excellence.
- to exceed in amount.
surmount
/ sɜːˈmaʊnt /
verb
- to prevail over; overcome
to surmount tremendous difficulties
- to ascend and cross to the opposite side of
- to lie on top of or rise above
- to put something on top of or above
- obsolete.to surpass or exceed
Derived Forms
- surˈmounter, noun
- surˈmountable, adjective
- surˈmountableness, noun
Other Words From
- sur·mount·a·ble [ser-, moun, -t, uh, -b, uh, l], adjective
- sur·mount·er noun
- un·sur·mount·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of surmount1
Example Sentences
The good news is that every state seems to have surmounted the wave and new cases are now generally on the decline.
For Bullock in Gravity, all those miles above Earth, reconnecting with home means surmounting the death of a daughter.
As a consequence, Nina is placed in an impossible position, but one she is determined to surmount.
Formulaic action scenes became riotous steeplechases as Zorro surmounted obstacles with somersaults and handsprings, sometimes pausing for a snack.
Now he’s seeking his fourth ring, inching closer to Michael Jordan’s six — which, no matter how much he downplays it, is a hill he’s still trying to surmount.
And that is why, as veterans, the onus is on us to surmount it and bridge the divide.
His fiery enthusiasm swept aside all difficulties; his inventive genius ever showed him the way to surmount all obstacles.
It was the personality of their general which had taught the French soldiers to surmount all difficulties.
The true spirit of success is not to look at obstacles, but to keep the eye on the many ways in which to surmount them.
They are daunted by nothing they surmount walls and hedges, and enter enclosed gardens or inhabited houses.
My mind was staggered with a view of the difficulties I had to surmount and the little interest I possessed.
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